Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.

The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so.

A good writer preserves an air of freedom in his prose, so that the reader won't know how a story will end - even if he's reading a history book.

How terrifying and glorious the role of man if, indeed, without guidance and without consolation he must create from his own vitals the meaning for his existence and write the rules whereby he lives.

Look at that moon. Potato weather for sure.

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

Being employed is like being loved: you know that somebody's thinking about you the whole time.